Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Title
Senior Software Engineer, 1

About Your Role:
People Inc. is looking for a forward-thinking Engineer focused on API and services development with demonstrated technical excellence for an exciting opportunity to design and scale mission-critical pieces of the next generation of our publishing. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment to build high-performance backend services to support and add new features to our new brand-focused mobile application.
In this role you will leverage your full-stack engineering expertise, primarily using Node and Javascript/TypeScript. The role offers opportunities for professional growth and experience with challenges of scale as we explore new ways of getting our content to viewers.
In-office Expectations: This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York, Des Moines, Birmingham, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Seattle, the expectation is to work from the office three times per week. The team is currently centered in NYC, so NYC applicants are preferred.
About Your Contributions:
• Independently design and develop new backend services and features that seamlessly connect our mobile applications with in-house content-management systems.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA, and product teams to define API contracts, data structures, authentication, and overall technical direction.
• Architect and execute complex feature builds from technical design and code-level implementation through to final integration.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements for performance bottlenecks and technical debt in existing backend services.
• Maintain high quality standards by actively participating in and leading code/design reviews, writing unit and end-to-end tests, and guiding technical conversations.
• Drive technical progress on projects to ensure applications meet performance requirements and utilize the most effective technologies.
• Research new technologies and approaches to solve complex problems and improve existing systems.
• Contribute to team knowledge-sharing and process improvement initiatives.
About You:
You have a love for technology and problem-solving, and a strong desire to deliver quality software as quickly as possible. You have
• 4+ years of proven experience developing and maintaining server-side applications, with strong technical proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js for building and maintaining RESTful APIs and backend services, ideally within a microservices architecture.
• Experience managing and optimizing data storage with NoSQL databases (e.g., Firestore), including maintaining performance, data consistency, and managing large datasets via optimized queries, indexes, and transactions. Experience with BigQuery is a plus.
• Comfortable deploying and monitoring services in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or native cloud solutions, and proficient in setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiar with security challenges in mobile app development, able to implement secure authentication/authorization (e.g., JWT, OAuth, Device Attestation), and protect backend services from common web vulnerabilities (e.g., XSS, SQL injection, DDoS).
• Good understanding of system design and architecture fundamentals, with experience in containerization (e.g., Docker), orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and familiarity with serverless architectures/functions-as-a-service.
• Ability to independently identify and troubleshoot complex issues, and seek collaborative input to create optimal solutions.
• Ability to translate business/product requirements into clear technical approaches and concepts, and communicate them effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working and proactively communicating in a distributed team environment.
It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing hr@people.inc.

Pay Range
Salary: New York: $145,000 - $170,000

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-232p9y-216-73-216-26-42 in your application.